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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Even more shocking is how there are still folks believing emphatically that Capitalism leads anywhere else.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
And we need to address that the recent issue of the college admissions scandal is by no means limited to academia. Wealth abuses each and every industry in similar or more damaging ways. Even the Daily Show tried to play it off as mere heli
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
I don't believe con-men should be applauded, no.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Great to see new, in progress applications from reverse-engineering that Zero Point Energy Drive. Unless the spatial light modulator is just a sheet of acid.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Too often I get stuck reading/writing/editing for days on end to nix deadlines, with nothing but coffee and pot because those are free and free is all I can afford. I've been hypnotized by this edit quite a lot lately: https
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The unvoiced limitations of socialized reality(nilskidoo.blackblogs.org)
1 points by nilskidoo 8y ago|0 comments
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
How we've existed for so long without this is beyond me. Thank you , to the creators of this.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
I remember a thread here from when I was just skulking years ago, where the importance for anonymity of candidates was weighed. Like, applicants would be masked so that there'd be no idea who was male or female or black or white, with
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
But so much of what gets branded as fake news really is just a matter of undesirable opinion or inconvenient truth though. Just because we really, really like the idea of a thing, or vice versa, does not make it concrete and provable. That&
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
This is unbelievably pertinent. We've grown so accustomed in this virtual world of having avatars and proxies to hide behind, like books judged by their covers with studies showing most folks do not even read beyond headlines, that we
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
That reads like a total cop-out from persons who prefer the comfort zone of mere reaction and repetition. Way too eager to rationalize faults and weaknesses.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Purchased with a hot check.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
The opposite of monopoly is diversity, and in genetics, the opposite of diversity is inbreeding.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
I won't stand for it myself.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
That was actually pretty interesting. There's the old saying, that a person who stands for nothing will fall for anything. I think that, just because all is futile and there ultimately is nothing worth standing for, it's no licens
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
I'd go even further and say that the larger platforms are anti-privacy by design, because their core purpose has always been concerned with data collection. I think the large online social networks are in the same vein fundamentally ri
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
I'd never consider myself a socialist, but I am all for hacking away at the military budget to raise the standard of living. It'd ease foreign relations considerably, like the drunk uncle who's loads of fun provided he only v
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
"My tapeworm tells me what to do." also, "Who watches the watchmen?"
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
I've thought before that transforming our soft grey matter into gold is basically what the Rosicrucian alchemists were on about.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
That author has never heard of Five Eyes but still writes tech security news?
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The existential threat Y Combinator must confront(nilskidoo.blackblogs.org)
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Unlikely, when they've a history of far worse? https://twitter.com/CianMW/status/1111345551969304576
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Never believe marketing.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
I completely agree with what you wrote. I think too many people erroneously presume that free speech somehow guarantees an audience and acceptance, and when neither one happens then they feel their rights are being violated. Personally, I f
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Ironically, the current US Secretary of Education and her obsession with over-funding unregulated charter schools seems to be building a future where the only people in the country who will be allowed a chance at any education are the ones
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Consider Jenna McLaughlin's reporting for the Intercept several years back, concerning the GCHQ raid on the offices of the Guardian newspaper, and why agents felt the need to physically destroy every computer in the building: https:&#
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Yet they banned fitbit usage among deployed troops because it was giving away their locations. "Do as I say, not as I do!"
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
First impression: it looks reeeally spammy.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
The Masons will have a field day.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
>Angel investing is for everybody So as with the desperation of crowdfunders retweeting themselves every 15 minutes to the same followers across multiple platforms, instead of requiring those who have looted the most from society to pay

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